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Two months after Türkiye-Syria earthquakes, volunteer rescuers are pained by those they couldn't save

Volunteer rescue worker Bayram Çini still has nightmares about those he couldn't save.

It's been two months since Mr Çini — along with 50 of his fellow mountaineering enthusiasts from the Turkish city of Aksehir — volunteered to search for survivors after a series of deadly earthquakes flattened cities and villages across their country.

Four major earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks struck along the Turkish-Syrian border starting on February 6, killing an estimated 57,000 people.

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